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Title: Texas Anthem

Author: Kerry Newcomb

Narrator: Joel Leffert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-15

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Kerry Newcomb launches his acclaimed Texas Anthem series with a gripping epic of betrayal, revenge, and love. Pistol-whipped, robbed of his horse, and left for dead by his brother, Vin, Johnny Anthem escapes Mexican slavery to find that his fiancée, Rose, has married Vin. Minutes after the ceremony, Johnny confronts the newlyweds and triggers a chain reaction of explosive events. Listeners will welcome Newcomb's wonderfully and profoundly moving prose.

Members Reviews:

good

westerns are my husbands kind of books, he read the five in this series and said that they were good.

Amazing Writing of Texas Life As It Was

A great read. Better than most western writers of the old school. Brings out the reality of the way life must have been for our forefathers that helped to bring Texas to what it is today. Great character depiction. I could picture them standing in front of me as the story moves along at a good pace. I look forward to enjoying more books by Newcomb in the days to come as well as searching back for some good missed reading.

I couldn't help but like the main characters

It was an interesting story. I couldn't help but like the main characters.

Excellent Western Novel

My first Kerry Newcomb read, but definitely won't be my last. Thoroughly enjoyed the book. Once I started, I didn't want to put the book down - I wanted to find out what happened next. Character development was great. A good story of Texas and the cowboy way of life.Highly recommend.

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Titre: Le roman de l'an mil

Auteur: Ramón Basagana

Narrateur: François Raison

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 8 hrs and 28 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 11-12-15

Éditeur: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Dans un souffle épique ponctué de magie, Ramon Basagana nous plonge dans l'une des périodes les plus mystérieuses et les plus captivantes du Moyen-Âge. L'an mil tel que personne ne l'a jamais conté !

Hiver 985 : en route pour Mayence, Samuel de Tolède, savant juif de grand renom et médecin personnel du Calife de Cordoue, fait halte dans une auberge avec sa femme et ses deux enfants. Soudain, des hommes armés surgissent. Tout va très vite. Deux corps gisent bientôt dans une mare de sang. Tapis sous un meuble, les enfants sont pris d'effroi, mais parviennent à s'enfuir... La soldatesque est à leurs trousses. C'est alors qu'un moine croise leur chemin, et que leur destin basculera entre intrigues, tragédies, amour et retrouvailles...

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©2014 Les Nouveaux Auteurs (P)2015 Audible FR

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Titel: Der Glanz von Südseemuscheln

Autor:: Regina Gärtner

Erzähler: Marie Bierstedt

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 18 hrs and 23 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 11-12-15

Herausgeber: Audible Studios

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Sydney / Samoa 1914: Kaum haben Alma und der australische Seemann Joshua zueinandergefunden, wird ihre Liebe auf eine harte Probe gestellt. Die Hysterie des Ersten Weltkrieges bricht über sie herein, und plötzlich befinden sie sich auf verfeindeten Seiten.

Als das Schicksal sie auseinanderreißt, muss Alma als Deutsche in Australien nicht nur um ihre Existenz bangen. Sie muss auch darum ringen, ihre hart erkämpfte Liebe zurückzugewinnen. Ausgerechnet ein hilfloser Straßenjunge erweist sich als Lichtblick in dunklen Zeiten. Doch er hütet ein seltsames Geheimnis.

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©2015 Regina Gärtner (P)2015 Audible GmbH

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Title: Mr. Ballpoint

Author: Gerald Everett Jones

Narrator: Michael Gilboe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-12-15

Publisher: La Puerta Productions

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In 1945, Milton Reynolds introduced the ballpoint to the United States and triggered the biggest single-day shopping riot in history at Gimbels in Manhattan. The Reynolds International Pen Company made $5 million in eight weeks during the first non-wartime Christmas season. Thereafter, increasing competition from established companies such as Eversharp triggered several years of the "Pen Wars". An exuberant entrepreneur who had already made and lost several fortunes, Reynolds bragged that he "stole it fair and square". This novel is told from Jim's, his mild-mannered son's, point of view about coping with Milton's outrageous schemes then their sudden success.

Members Reviews:

A decent read, but just not stimulating enough

Is there anything you would change about this book?

I just couldn't get that interested in the primary character, Milton. I realize that this was basically a true representation of him and the author was "using" what was available. However, he was such a shallow and selfish man that the story, for the most part, was just not very enjoyable to me. I know that people have much worse father's than Milton was; thankfully their are many who are much, much better (if not much poorer- financially speaking).

Which scene was your favorite?

The scrambling that Milt did in order to be the first to the U.S. market with the ballpoint pen and the early weeks of sales were both very interesting. These two areas of the book are where the real value was located. In fact, these sections are very solid. I believe I will occasionally remember some of these details as I grab a pen for many years to come.

Any additional comments?

I received this e-book for free in exchange for an unbiased review.

Good storytelling, mediocre writing

The concept seemed promising enough, and whether entirely true, based on a true story or not I don't know ... initially had thought I cared about where the ballpoint pen came from, and this curiosity was dutifully fulfilled by Mr. Ballpoint, yet left me with a sense of disappointment, like when as a child you expect one Christmas present but get another.

As I said in the headline, this is a story well told by the author. However, it is so in much the same empty way a drunken dinner guest spins yarns of his adventures at the table. Yes he is somewhat entertaining, but there's something sad and pathetic about him as well ... something you can't quite put your finger on. This is how I felt about this story. I was an avid listener up to very near the end, then at once I completely lost interest and had great difficulty bearing the final 10-15 minutes. The off-key Broadway-style singing at the end was the nail in the coffin, so I stopped there, a few minutes short of the finish.

There are just no real surprises here, either in the story itself or the writing. No turns of phrase that make you marvel at the author's skill, no poignant or imaginative exchanges of dialogue.

Perhaps the biggest problem for Mr. Ballpoint is that it lacks any truly likable characters. The narrator, the son of "Mr. Ballpoint" himself is kind of a zero, personality wise, and his wife is not much better -- which I suppose makes them a fitting couple. As for Mr.

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Titel: Der leere Thron (Uhtred 8)

Autor:: Bernard Cornwell

Erzähler: Gerd Andresen

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 8 hrs and 9 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 11-03-15

Herausgeber: Audiobuch Verlag OHG

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

In langen Kämpfen haben die vereinten Heere der Angelsachsen die Dänen zurückgedrängt. Doch die tödliche Gefahr aus dem Norden hängt weiter über den englischen Königreichen. Und nun liegt thelred, Herrscher von Mercien, im Sterben. Wie soll sein Land die Unabhängigkeit vom benachbarten Wessex wahren?

Im Kampf um die Nachfolge hält der Krieger Uhtred treu zu thelfld, seiner Herrin und heimlichen Geliebten, thelreds Weib. Aber werden die führenden Männer des Reiches eine Frau auf dem mercischen Thron akzeptieren - und sei sie noch so halsstarrig und so tapfer wie diese?

©2015 rororo (P)2015 Audiobuch Verlag OHG

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Title: Lincoln's Diary

Author: DL Fowler

Narrator: Anne Watson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-07-15

Publisher: Harbor Hill Publishing

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Lincoln's Diary is a fast-paced story about a young woman's determination to unbury secrets, including the disappearance of a private Lincoln diary her mysterious grandfather once owned. And when she hunts down a professor who likely swindled her mother out of it so he could prove Lincoln planned his own assassination, she's accused of his murder. Running from police and a stalker who's bent on destroying any evidence the diary exists, Sarah turns to the only person she trusts - herself. And when taxed to her limits, she turns to strangers for help - only to find betrayal pushing her to the breaking point.

Critic Reviews:

"A truly electrifying suspense novel based on a young woman's risky search for an immensely valuable diary of Abraham Lincoln's, purloined from her inheritance." (Hank Searls, author of the best sellers JAWS 2, Overboard, and The Big X; creator of TV's Metropolitan Squad series starring Leslie Nielsen)

Members Reviews:

Lincoln's Diary: Enjoyable Read, Left with Unanswered Questions

Sarah, the primary character, starts out exploring her Grandmother's attic shortly after her mother's death. She wants to know who her father was, and who her grandfather was. These two men were absent from her life. She finds her Grandmother's journal from which she learns her Grandfather's first name. Sarah then learns that shortly before death, her mother sold a document and possibly a diary written by Lincoln to a professor in California. She heads to California to find out what was sold. Soon after, Sarah is the prime suspect in the professor's death and people are after her for her Grandmother's journal and Lincoln's diary. As if that were not enough, she also learns her grandfather was murdered 50+ years ago, and his death may have some connection to the present day murder investigation.

I did have a few key problems with the story. 1) Why did Sarah head across the country to California to meet with the professor who bought something from her mother? Unless she was just looking for an excuse to get out of town, this just didn't make sense to me. 2) After the present day murder is solved there were some loose ends. Either they were not addressed, or I missed something. Was the person who murdered the professor the one who was stalking Sarah and trying to get her Grandmother's journal? If not, the author didn't wrap up this part of the story. If it WAS the same person, there are things that don't make sense - but I don't want to go into a spoiler. 3) The professor's murder is solved. The grandfather's murder is solved, to the extent we know who did it and can form an educated guess as to why. The author then begins to explain who Sarah's father was and why/how he died. It takes several chapters to wrap that up. This part of the story wasn't connected to the rest of the novel and could have been left out altogether. 4) Some thins were just unrealistic. Hetherington (the homicide detective on the professor's murder) served in the army with Sarah's father during Viet Nam. Small world! And Sarah conveniently found someone who knew her Grandfather, and someone else who witnessed his murder... Over 50 years in the past.

Other reviewers have mentioned that Lincoln's Diary could have used a bit more time in editing.

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Title: Power Play

Author: F. Ethan Repp

Narrator: Robert Ashton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-15

Publisher: First Edition Design Publishing

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Politics is a mean spirited business. Power Play allows the listener to be in the room where this character-driven novel is graphically experienced - history repeats itself.

Questionable police tactics didn't begin in 2014. The awareness and threats caused by aggressive police actions have recently changed, but they're not without precedent. A city manager has the inside story. Listen to Power Play, a story set in the 1970s when blind trust was too often the case: deceit, revenge, militaristic police, affected legal system, and gay tragedy; the end of the Hoover era, amidst the death throes of the Nixon debacle. The author has captured an era, depicting a battle for the soul of the Republic, at the local level.

Young, handsome, and charming Collier Winthrop is enticed by a crusty old political boss, Al Caso, to seek public office. Collie soon faces an unscrupulous adversary practiced in deceit: manipulated state investigative agencies and a contaminated police department. Events unfold that uncover a sordid police mentality, unveil the civil rights of the flower children violated, ruin reputations, and threaten the very lives of Collie's confederates.

How can Collie unravel plots unseen and unimaginable to survive even the earliest months of his political enterprise? The work portrays the depth and conflict of personalities. Politics is a business of expediency. Otherwise, decent people justify immoral behavior in defense of careers.

Author bio: Mr. Repp is no stranger to politics, with nearly 50 years in political and government operations, Mr. Repp has taken that experience and is now sharing with his audiences. He was first elected to chair a political party at the age of 24 and served for 20 years. He was the County Supervisor of Elections; Upstate NY Town Manager; Long Island, NY, Village Manager of Fire Island; and City Economic Development Manager in Florida.

Members Reviews:

A real tale of political intrigue

As soon as I started reading this book, I thought that was the right novel to read before voting for the new U.S. President. I am waiting for these elections, also, and for this reason I found very interesting the plot and the characters of the book. Power Play, as the subtitle says, is a real tale of political intrigue that delves into the perverse arrangements of a political campaign where candidates are ready to wolf their competitors to conquer power. During this reading, I finally understood what really is politics, a gloomy world where power comes first of people. I was wonderfully enthralled by the main character, namely Albert Caso, the 73 year old Chairman of the main party of an American County. Maybe because of the age, by now, Caso decides to help a young man, Collin Winthrop, to run for the chair of the Mayor of the city. I really appreciated how the author depicted these two characters, elder Caso and younger Collin. The first, an influential and powerful old politician who knows everything about the murky world of politics, and the second, the heir of a wealthy American family who loves power instead of to work in the business of his father. I think Iâll remember this book for a long time, because it was very useful to discover the dark sides of politics and elections.

Political Fiction Novel --A Must Read!

As I finished the last page of this book the one thought that came into my head was "and the beat goes on". Politics is a profession that has always been shall we say, rather dirty.

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Title: The Many Deaths of Comrade Binh

Subtitle: Tales from the Vietnam War

Author: Kenneth Levin

Narrator: Danny T. Levin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-15

Publisher: Mushroom Stamp Productions

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The short stories contained in The Many Deaths of Comrade Binh are fiction. This does not, however, mean they aren't true. Retired naval officer Kenneth Levin readily admits to some artistic license, but each tale is based on actual events that occurred during the Vietnam War.

Twice wounded in the line of duty, Levin remembers the horrors of war all too well. He draws inspiration from his own experiences and those of comrades, allies, and mercenaries as well as civilians and members of the North Vietnamese army.

Levin never forgets how deeply war affects both combatants and bystanders or how battle sometimes forces humans to act inhumanely. Many of his stories are capable of moving you to tears - or disturbing enough to keep you up at night.

At the same time, humanity has a knack for survival even in wartime, a truth reflected in Levin's stories of humor, irony, and love.

Despite being war stories, The Many Deaths of Comrade Binh never glorifies war. Levin knows his subject too well to romanticize battle or mistake jingoism for patriotism. Comparable to Bao Ninh's The Sorrow of War, Levin's stories are about the terrifying impact of war on ordinary people.

Members Reviews:

The cost of war

At a time when chick lit has invaded the market in great abundance, it is even more striking to read a book such as The Many Deaths of Comrade Binh. This is a book written by a man and mainly intended for a virile audience. Even more than in Levinâs previous work, Crazy Razor, in this collection of short stories about the Vietnam War he draws sharp contrasts between the horrors of war, fear, panic, depersonalization, cruelty, macabre and innocence, children, injustice, meaningless pain and death on both sides.

Usually, authors favor a cause, a people or some of their characters, but the beauty of Levinâs position is that he does not. There is good and bad in nearly all the protagonists, and the potential for everything in between.

Yet the dichotomy is not always black or white as he tells some of the stories in such a personal, emotional, delicate manâs way, such as the piece where he is dancing the Bamba with his grand-daughter or the story of Frenchieâs grand-daughter wearing his medals--the âjewelryâ--on Buddhaâs birthday. He avoids melodrama and keeps an effective matter-of-fact tone in gruesome tales such as the unforgettable Thanksgiving ballooned corpse or the lethal spread of Agent Orange along the Saigon River. The inability to express emotions in such a horrific world is well described for instance in the story of Mark the dog, a charming, lovable animal who ends up blown up by a mine. But his owner is so emotionally spent that he feels only blank inside.

And yet along all this sadness, Levin unexpectedly finds also humor for instance in the very funny story of the barf bags thrown from a helicopter that the Vietcong take for biological warfare. This contrasts with the sad irony of The Joke of 1968 where two soldiers are run over by a tank as they are finally shaking hands after a long personal battle against one another.

I loved the story of the Moonrise: it takes a long time to grow into oneâs own shoes. The Big Fat Ugly Fish is so evocative, you can smell, taste, hear everything that is described.

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Title: Ofiary pólswiatka

Author: Stanislaw A. Wotowski

Narrator: Slawomir Holland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-15

Publisher: Heraclon / storybox.pl

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Please note: This audiobook is in Polish.

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Title: Sister Noon

Author: Karen Joy Fowler

Narrator: Liza Ross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-15

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

San Francisco in the 1890s is a town of contradictions. Lizzie Hayes, a docile, middle-aged spinster, is praised for her volunteer work with the Ladies' Relief and Protection Society Home.

When the wealthy but ill-reputed Mary Ellen Pleasant shows up with an orphan in tow, Lizzie is drawn to them both. For it is the beautiful Mrs. Pleasant, object of suspicion because of her rumoured voodoo practise, who holds the key to freeing Lizzie's rebellious nature.

Critic Reviews:

"Robust, sly, witty, elegant, unexpected." (New York Times)

"Karen Joy Fowler has magic powers." (Sophie Hannah)

Members Reviews:

An interesting woman that may have existed.

The description of San Francisco in 1890 is fascinating and so is all the information on the period, but I found the plot to be disappointing as so much of the book is based on rumors and innuendo that it feels slippery and forced to stay together.

Ellen Pleasant.is the main character in the soul of the book, but she also is the mistery almost and amalgamation of a mithical woman; black, white, married, rich, poor, servant, mistres, murderer all of this are posibilities that Lizzie Hayes, a spinster is created to try and descover but in the end it all fades in the fog of time.

It is not a bad book but the fascination with the mystery of Ellen Pleasant.is never enough of a coherent plot, more of a device to explore and interesting character that time and the period she lived in have render but a rumor a phantasm that never becomes solid or alive..